“To those who seek, O Lord,
Thy purpose to fulfil,
And strive by prayer, in full accord
With all Thy holy will,
Meekly to run their Christian race,—
To these Thou givest grace for grace.
O Grace Divine! No tongue
In Eden’s happy bower,
Hath all the mighty fulness sung
Of Thine availing power,
By faith in Christ from Sin to Save,
And give the victory o’er the grave.”
“Approved in Christ!” and is this all the Bible says of thee?
Well, tis enough! would that of us such words might spoken be.
How sweet the blessed, holy thoughts, which cluster round a name,
So dear to an Apostle’s heart, so little known to fame!
Thy friends, like thee, were firm in faith, and steadfast in their love,
They sought not the applause of men,—their record is above;
And, when our work on earth is done, be this our blessed reward,
To be, as Paul’s Apelles was, “approved” of the Lord!